Luigi Giacone

14 books

The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights by Robin Blackburn

The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights

Robin Blackburn

512 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
A Concise History of Russia by Paul Bushkovitch

A Concise History of Russia

Cambridge Concise Histories

Paul Bushkovitch

518 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black

Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

Ian Black

512 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

The Princeton History of the Ancient World

Kyle Harper

440 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction health history nature science informative slow-paced
Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes by Tim Spector

Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes

Tim Spector

352 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction health psychology science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization?From Mecca to Dubai by Justin Marozzi

Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization?From Mecca to Dubai

Justin Marozzi

512 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous informative slow-paced
The Library: A World History by James W. P. Campbell

The Library: A World History

James W. P. Campbell

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history science informative slow-paced
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

Greg Woolf

528 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

Toby Wilkinson

656 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Steven Nadler

A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

Steven Nadler

279 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced